The past week and a half are yet again proving to be full of busy. My life at thie point is basically work-gym-home-sleep-repeat… and clean-gym on the weekends T-T. Yet I feel progress is slow… but slow on many different things. I always feel I take on too many projects at once. Will forever be my downfall!

We’ve rearranged the room for spring, has given is a wonderfully open feeling and frees up a lot of clutter. I really love spring cleaning ^ ^. Found a bunch of crap I’d all buy forgotten about in the closet including my old Japan paper work and my alter stuff. Found my athame in a box with some dried up flowers from who knows how long ago. And Joe’s old Moogle plushies I bought him as a stupid cute anniversary gift like 3 years ago XD. They were in a box that had signs of closet bugs so had to give them a good wash.
Kiwi got his first real vet visit because he had a bad molt. Turns out he’d been cheating with his diet and consuming mostly seed instead of his pellets so he’s on a special pellet only diet. He had a little birdie fit over it for like a day before giving in and eating the pellets. $90 later I’m glad I bought birdie insurance.

Soooo I’ve been doing the gym as often as possible. I’m able to widthstand cardio for a full hour now without felling like I’m about to die. I feel much better and I’ve lost weight but I just don’t seem much of a difference in my opinion. Really frustrating D: I’m about to put myself on an even more strict diet just to get results faster. Jess is basically on a diabetic’s diet because of her own health even though she’s not diabetic. It’s actually really healthy and cuts out all the crap that causes most of my own set backs… like sugar and carbohydrates XD. Even though I stay under my 1000 calories a day I’m still taking in stuff that doesn’t process well. So I’m thinking of just following the same thing… just so hard to cut out bread stuff… sugar I’d be fine without. I just love food so much it’s incredibly difficult T-T. Lots of parties and wedding coming up too. It feels hopeless XD.

Right near our gym is the Asian food mart so we’ve been doing a lot of shopping there. I never realized how amazingly cheap all there stuff is. They have the gallon bottles of my itoen green tea 2 for $5 that I can’t find anywhere else. Unsweetened tea is completely unheard of in this country. And chrosanthemom honey tea… though it’s actually packed full of sugar… so no more of that for me T-T. I’m just very sad they no longer carry my yakisoba! Who knew grilled noodles and mayo went so well together. We accidentally bought some type of chips that were made from the reproductive organs of crabs… Why would anyone make a chip out of that?! I thought they were shrimp chips or something…. nope… crab ovaries! I shouldn’t trust the chinese food I can’t read T-T.
So while browsing the store its inevitable that we come across some Engrish…funny enough that I just had to take a picture… It just seems so funny.
We bought lots of stuff to make curry like 3 days ago. I haven’t had curry in such a long time, it was awesome. One pot made enough to feed us pretty much through the week. It’s been a small way of saving money XD.

I’ve been very much involved in art lately. I finally made the leap and bought my first set of Copic markers out of much frustration with my Prismas. They just run out too quick and have very poor color selection. Sad I can get them for $2.00 a marker too… ended up shelling out like $4.58 a marker for the Copics…. which sadly is still pretty cheap…. Sooooo well worth it though. They truly are god markers! They draw and blend so smooth and easy… like a mix of a marker and water color paint or something o.o! I have a set of 36 and it’s still not enough though XD. I’m thinking one a month I’ll designate a small amount of money into buying a couple of markers at a time. I have to be an expensive whore and get the Copic sketch instead of the Copic ciao which are like a $1.50 cheaper… I want lots of purty color options though T-T. To buy the enitre set of Copic Sketch markers would cost like $1,400… Sad to think I might invest about that much in just markers by the time I’m satisfied… I have major issues.

So going along with my art thing, I finally picked back up on a CG pic since my computer died and I lost the last one I worked so long on T-T… was almost complete too. I’m much happier with this one for some reason though o.o I think the coloring is just going much easier now that I’ve gotten a good feel for the tablet. The possibilities are endless! bwahahahah!
So this time I drew Tsukasa, yet another member of Ab]sin[the that Liz and I came up with so long ago. I really always wanted to draw him… but could never quite figure out how I wanted him to look… he was suppose to be a little more girlie then the already flaming homosexual band. His symbol is the fish as well… so once I’m done CGing him I’d like to add fish into his portrait… I’m thinking parrot fish… cause they look all sorts of happy all the time (and I’m partial to the ones already swimming in my tank XD).

Pretty Tsukasa plays the bass ^ ^. I have much more detail to add… and the black lines are bothering me… I can’t wait to colorize them… but so far I think he’s turning out well! I already have a picture of Shinji (drummer) drawn up. I’ll probably CG him next… then finally on to my picture of Ryou and Mika! I still haven’t characterized Kenji… suppose to be the asshole lead guitarist… and his symbol is the snake… so I’m thinking he’ll look something like a stuck up sexy asshole whose just so sexy you forgive him for being an asshole… We’ll see <3